Release week is here!!

It’s been a long time coming, but boy it’s been worth the wait! LYLO’s eagerly anticipated follow up to 2018’s ‘Post Era’ drops this Friday 10th May!

We’ll be hosting an album listening party over on Bandcamp this Wednesday 8th May at 8pm with LYLO live in the chat, discussing all things Thoughts of Never. Join via the link below:

https://elranchorecords.bandcamp.com/live/lylo-thoughts-of-never-first-listen

For anyone out there who likes to own the physical, If you haven’t pre ordered your copy, there’s still time! Just head over to our Bandcamp page below and grab your copy!

Digital streamers just follow the link below to pre save the album into your DSP of choice!

https://lnk.to/lylo-thoughtsofnever

Last but not least, come celebrate release day this Friday at Servant Jazz Quarters in Dalston, where LYLO will be performing a special show with some very special guests on the stage with them! Tickets are running low, but you can pick one up at the link below!

https://dice.fm/event/p3o7k-lylo-thoughts-of-never-album-launch-w-martha-rose-dj-esm-dee-dj-emanuel-pavlova-10th-may-servant-jazz-quarters-london-tickets

The Best of 2023… a digestible list.

In no particular order, these were the records that I couldn’t get enough of in 2023. New artists and some old discoveries reissued this year - these make the same list in my book.

Bowes Road Band

JIM – Love Makes Magic (Vicious Charm)

The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)

The Lemon Twigs – Harmony Everywhere (Captured Tracks)

Everything Has A Life – J Mahon (Taxi Gauche)

Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre (Soft Abuse)

Just A Touch – Various (Athens Of The North)

McNeal and Wilbur Niles – THRUST (We Are Busy Bodies)

Mad Anthony – The Lost Tapes (Earth Libraries)

Bowes Road Band – Back in the HCA (Jakarta)

Randy & The Ghosts – On The Lam (Riding Easy)

Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)

Albert – Time Well Spent (Tejas Music)

The honourable mention list is really good too! These albums just came out in the past month or so and haven’t sunk in yet, they were played a lot and enjoyed, but didn’t quite grip the speakers in the obsessive way the list above did. Saying that, these were great and more than worth checking out…

African Head Charge – Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)

Jonathan Rado – For Who the Bell Tolls For (Western Vinyl)

Girl Ray – Prestige (Moshi Moshi)

Yasmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own)

James Howard – Peek-a-Boo (Faith and Industry)

Smokey Angle Shades - Let Go Of The Past (Europa Sun)